A way of dismantling whiteness is for white people to start naming their individual ancestries instead. (You know, the way a fifth-gen Chinese American is called Chinese, but a fifth-gen Dutch American is called white.) So if you didn’t call yourself white, what are you?
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Predominantly from the British Isles, I guess?
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Irish, English and unknown amounts of Welsh and Scottish. I’m a mongrel of murky parentage. (Aussies who haven’t done the family history).
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My Aussie grandfather once said they didn't look too closely at the family history as there were a few "horse thieves" back there. Biggest secret really appears to be his grandfather's suicide.
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